CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

TheLittleSongbird One of my personal favourite Disney cartoons without a doubt. I have always had a soft for the Disney cartoons, and Mickey's Polo Team is no exception. Apart from Donald and Goofy looking cruder than they do usually, though not as much as On Ice, the animation is colourful and fluid(Big Bad Wolf is the best animated of the characters), and the music is typically energetic and action enhancing. The story is simple, but goes by quickly with not a dull moment. As with Mother Goose Goes Hollywood, the gags and the characters are the real stars of Mickey's Polo Tem, plus it was really interesting to see Disney's characters and caricatures of famous stars of the time playing polo. I enjoyed seeing Mickey(though he doesn't get much to do), Goofy, Donald, Clarabelle Cow and Big Bad Wolf, as well as caricatures of Clark Gable, Shirley Temple, Harpo Marx, Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Robin. Stars of the likes of Peculiar Penguins, Who Killed Cock Robin and The Golden Touch can also be seen. The gags overall are not as clever or as hilarious as Mother Goose Goes Hollywood, but there is still much to enjoy. The best of the laughs come from Laurel & Hardy(reminiscent of their films but still very funny) and Donald(very outlandish), though it was interesting to see Charlie Chaplin with his cane rather than a polo stick and the Clark Gable vs.Clarabelle Cow moments are amusing, likewise with Harpo. Overall, simply great. 9.5/10 Bethany Cox

theowinthrop The cartoon is fairly amusing, but nothing notable by itself. In the 1930s there was a serious polo playing group out of the Hollywood movie set. It included Walt Disney (it also included Spencer Tracy, of all people, and Will Rogers). Odd that such a kind of upper class sport became so popular in the movie colony. In any case, Disney made this 1936 cartoon showing a polo match between a Disney team of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, the Big Bad Wolf, and Goofy, against a "star team" of Laurel & Hardy, Harpo Marx, and Charlie Chaplin. The Western star, Jack Holt, is the referee. Disney enjoyed doing cartoons with caricatures of various stars of the day. Here he includes other figures in the viewing stand. Among them are Clark Gable (who is sitting with the amorous Claribel Cow, a long forgotten Disney cartoon figure who was usually teamed with Horace Horsecollar). Gable keeps getting bothered by Claribel, and eventually blushes red when she kisses him. The Three Little Pigs are in the stand next to Shirley Temple. Their appearance leads to a pleasant kind of sequel to the earlier Disney cartoon classic. Eddie Cantor, Harold Lloyd, Edna Mae Oliver (who is annoyed by Oswald the Rabbit), W.C. Fields, Greta Garbo, Mrs. Roosevelt, and Charles Laughton (dressed up as Henry VIII) are also in the bleachers.The humor of the bulk of the cartoon is not the greatest the Disney studio ever concocted, but it is better than average. The different polo players are riding animals that resemble them (Harpo is on an ostrich; Ollie is on a tremendously fat horse, whose face has a Hardy scowl on it, and a smudge of a mustache, Chaplin's horse is like Charlie in appearance (even bow legged), and Stan's has a head of tousled hair and a silly grin. Even Holt's horse looks like Holt.We see incidents like Harpo and his ostrich (when they seen the other players charging them) putting their heads in the earth; or Hardy having trouble remounting his horse with "assistance" from Stan; or Charlie deftly turning his horse a quarter to the left by use of his cane on the goal posts. Donald Duck (who gets into a kind of fight with Harpo - which he loses) swallows the polo ball and keeps trying to avoid the other players. As for the Big Bad Wolf, he is heckled by his old enemies, the pigs (now aided by Shirley). But now they are not in the third pigs' brick house, but in a wooden stand. The Big Bad Wolf stops his playing, turns and blows the portion of the stand apart, causing the pigs and Shirley to hide from him. It's somewhat nice to know that here Disney actually gave an ironic follow-up to a previous cartoon for a change.A pleasant and enjoyable cartoon, it is not one of Disney's greatest works but it is worth looking at.

MartinHafer Had this Disney cartoon been made a decade later, this would have probably been seen as a rather poor cartoon, as the plot itself and gags aren't all that great. However, for the 1930s (when most short cartoons were pretty lame compared to those from the golden days at Looney Tunes and MGM), it's pretty good. The animation and colors in particular are very nice. Plus, from a historical point of view it's both a great opportunity to see the older style Goofy and Donald characters which look far different from how they look now. And, also from a historical standpoint, it's a great chance to see many of the stars of the day lampooned as cartoon characters--making many cameos (that, again, aren't all that funny). You'll see many recognizable ones such as Clark Gable, W. C. Fields, Chaplin, Harpo Marx and Shirley Temple, but also many of the older stars who are unfortunately forgotten today, such as Harold Lloyd, Jack Holt and Edna May Oliver. Not super funny, but fascinating and worth a peek.

ccthemovieman-1 Now playing is a polo match between "Movie Stars" and "Mickey's Mousers." On the stars team is Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harpo Marx and Charlie Chaplin. Playing for Mickey's team is Mickey, "The Goof," Big Bad Wolf and Donald Duck. Jack Holt is the referee.In the crowd are such luminaries as Porky Pig, W. C. Fields, Minnie Mouse, Eleanor Roosevelt, Shirley Temple and a bunch of other famous people. That is fun to look at, trying to spot as many people and caricatures as you know.The players are introduced. Those intros are funny. For instance, Harpo comes out on a ostrich, Chaplin uses a cane instead of a polo stick, etc.That's the good news. The bad news is that the rest of the cartoon, the last 65 percent, is not very funny. We see some Laurel & Hardy bits, some Harpo stuff and Donald Duck get pummeled by everyone. None of it is very funny.A good premise and a great start but overall, a disappointing animated short.